Aug 27, 2007 7:48 pm US/Central
Family Believes New Photo Is Of Missing Girl
Tionda, Diamond Bradley Disappeared Six Years Ago
by Mike Parker
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
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Tionda Bradley's aunt says this picture is very likely of her the girl who disappeared from her South Side apartment six years ago.
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The family of the missing Bradley girls has released a new photograph they found on the Internet.
After more than six years and dozens of prayer vigils and marches, the Bradley sisters are still missing. Tionda was 10 and her little sister Diamond was 3 when they disappeared from their South Side apartment in 2001.
Despite scores of leads gathered by Chicago police, no trace of the girls has been found.
As CBS 2's Mike Parker reports, now a photograph has surfaced on the Internet on a MySpace page by someone named "Angelique." Although tracing the source of the picture has been fruitless so far, the girls' aunt believes it could well be a picture of Tionda, who would be 16 today.
"That's my niece. I'm telling you that's my niece. And if it's not my niece, only DNA can prove me different," said Shelia Bradley Smith.
A West Side pastor who has been counseling the family thinks she may be right.
"It looks like a very close resemblance," said Rev. Paul Jakes.
The family has posted the mystery photo on their Web site,
FindTiondaAndDiamond.com.
"I need for the community, anybody throughout the United States or internationally to just take a look at the picture. Maybe they know who that girl is, because if it was put on there as a joke or a hoax, we need to just know," Bradley Smith said.
"We have faith in the prayers," Jakes added. "We pray that there will be a fair and good outcome."
Experts at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children say they cannot say for sure if the girl in the photo is Tionda.
Chicago police are still trying to track down the source of the picture.
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